{"product_id":"debating-reform-conflicting-perspectives-on-how-to-fix-the-american-political-system-9781544390598","title":"Debating Reform: Conflicting Perspectives on How to Fix the American Political System","description":"Getting students away from spouting opinions about highly-charged partisan issues, Debating Reform, Fourth Edition looks at key questions about reforming political institutions, with contributed pieces written by top scholars specifically for the volume. Each pro or con essay considers a concrete proposal for reforming the political system. By focusing on institutions, rather than liberal or conservative public policies, students tend to leave behind ideology and grapple with claims and evidence to draw their own conclusions and build their own arguments. Students will explore how institutions work in their American government text, but this reader helps them to understand how they can be made to work better.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard J. Ellis \u003c\/b\u003eis Mark O. Hatfield Professor of Politics at Willamette University. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Development of the American Presidency\u003c\/i\u003e (2015; 2nd ed.); \u003ci\u003eDebating Reform: Conflicting Perspectives on How to Fix the American Political System \u003c\/i\u003e(with Michael Nelson, 3nd ed., 2016); \u003ci\u003eJudging the Boy Scouts of America: Gay Rights, Freedom of Association, and the \u003c\/i\u003eDale \u003ci\u003eCase \u003c\/i\u003e(2014); \u003ci\u003eJudging Executive Power: Sixteen Supreme Court Cases That Have Shaped the American Presidency \u003c\/i\u003e(2009); and \u003ci\u003ePresidential Travel: The Journey from George Washington to George W. Bush \u003c\/i\u003e(2008). In 2008 he was named the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Oregon Professor of the Year.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Nelson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College and a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. A former editor of the\u003ci\u003e Washington Monthly, \u003c\/i\u003ehis most recent books include \u003ci\u003eTrump's First Year \u003c\/i\u003e(2018); \u003ci\u003eThe Elections of 2016 \u003c\/i\u003e(2018); \u003ci\u003eThe Evolving Presidency: Landmark Documents \u003c\/i\u003e(2019)\u003ci\u003e; The American Presidency: Origins and Development \u003c\/i\u003e(with Sidney M. Milkis, 2011); and \u003ci\u003eGoverning at Home: The White House and Domestic Policymaking \u003c\/i\u003e(with Russell B. Riley, 2011). Nelson has contributed to numerous journals, including the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Policy History, Journal of Politics, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePolitical Science Quarterly. \u003c\/i\u003eHe also has written multiple articles on subjects as varied as baseball, Frank Sinatra, and C. S. Lewis. More than fifty of his articles have been anthologized in works of political science, history, and English composition. His 2014 book, \u003ci\u003eResilient America: Electing Nixon, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government\u003c\/i\u003e, won the American Political Science Association's Richard E. Neustadt Award for best book on the presidency published that year; and his 2006 book with John Lyman Mason, \u003ci\u003eHow the South Joined the Gambling \u003c\/i\u003eNation, won the Southern Political Science Association's V.O. Key Award. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"CQ Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50859201528082,"sku":"9781544390598","price":113.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7d7e64d4-f088-409f-a974-4fd68ed2e088.jpg?v=1737552103","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/debating-reform-conflicting-perspectives-on-how-to-fix-the-american-political-system-9781544390598","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}